Beatles amplifier returned to Halewood superfan with incredible memorabilia collection
A Beatles fanatic who was good friends with the group has got his hands back on a historic amplifier almost certainly used by the band.
Halewood man Stan Cargill has spent years collecting Beatles memorabilia and owns hundreds of autographs - some worth thousands of pounds - as well as original photos of the band. And now he is the proud owner of a 55-year-old Vox AC30 amp which had been donated to The Beatles Story more than five years ago. The amp was found by one of Stan’s relatives in 2009 in a shed a few streets away from George Harrison’s old home in Woolton. Stan then got in touch with Sam Leach, who promoted the band in the early 60s, and said he had “no doubt” it was used by the Fab Four.
But now the former promoter has given it back to Stan, who also owns a Sennheiser microphone from the same period which he believes was used by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He told the ECHO he is considering selling some of his signed photographs and cuttings. He said: “I’ll be very sad to sell some of them, they are treasures. “The Beatles were all brilliant, they were my heroes and I have met them all too many times to count. I used to live just up the road from Harrison, on Mackets Lane, and he was great.”
By: Sam Dean
Source: The Liverpool Echo
